3.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit 976a702ac9eeacea09e588456ab165dc06f9ee83 ] order-5 allocations can fail with current kernels, we should try vmalloc() as well. Reported-by: Julien Tinnes <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ #include <linux/rcupdate.h> #include <linux/spinlock.h> #include <linux/jiffies.h> -#include <linux/bootmem.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/cache.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/tcp.h> #include <linux/hash.h> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h> #include <net/inet_connection_sock.h> #include <net/net_namespace.h> @@ -722,7 +722,10 @@ static int __net_init tcp_net_metrics_in net->ipv4.tcp_metrics_hash_log = order_base_2(slots); size = sizeof(struct tcpm_hash_bucket) << net->ipv4.tcp_metrics_hash_log; - net->ipv4.tcp_metrics_hash = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); + net->ipv4.tcp_metrics_hash = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOWARN); + if (!net->ipv4.tcp_metrics_hash) + net->ipv4.tcp_metrics_hash = vzalloc(size); + if (!net->ipv4.tcp_metrics_hash) return -ENOMEM; @@ -743,7 +746,10 @@ static void __net_exit tcp_net_metrics_e tm = next; } } - kfree(net->ipv4.tcp_metrics_hash); + if (is_vmalloc_addr(net->ipv4.tcp_metrics_hash)) + vfree(net->ipv4.tcp_metrics_hash); + else + kfree(net->ipv4.tcp_metrics_hash); } static __net_initdata struct pernet_operations tcp_net_metrics_ops = { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

